-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 31/08/12 11:27 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 15:45 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller >> <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Coming back to this old topic [1]. Is there still consensus >>> that we should have such an EJOBS variable? (It shouldn't be >>> called JOBS because this name is too generic, see the old >>> discussion.) Then we could add it to EAPI 5. >>> >>> Ulrich >>> >>> [1] >>> <http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_750e33f68b16d971dff1f40dd9145e56.xml> >> >> >>> If we're doing this, do we tell users to stop setting MAKEOPTS for >> EAPIs 5 and greater? Do we change the name of MAKEOPTS for EAPIs >> 5 and greater instead? Do we put fancy code in the package >> mangler to deal with it? > > Users typically set MAKEOPTS systemwide in /etc/make.conf. If EJOBS > will have no effect for <EAPI5 ebuilds, then obviously we should > not be advising users to stop using MAKEOPTS until the whole tree > has migrated to EAPI5. And if EJOBS will be recognized by a future > version of portage for all EAPIs, then we still should allow > MAKEOPTS because some users may want to use --load-average. > > Changing the name of MAKEOPTS in >=EAPI5 makes no sense. First, > because it's a standard environment variable used by gnu make. > Second, because having 3 different settings for parallel building > (EJOBS, MAKEOPTS, and "MAKEOPTS_EAPI5") would be insane. > > Fancy code in the package manager would be the way to go IMHO. > Ulrich's message contains a reasonable description of the > algorithm. > > -Alexandre.
I think, if i read the previous response to this correctly, that the suggestion isn't the removal of MAKEOPTS, but simply that the '-j' specification currently set in MAKEOPTS should instead be set in EJOBS in everyone's make.conf. This would then be appended to MAKEOPTS (for all EAPI) -and- be used for non-make build systems (for EAPI>=5) alike. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlBA4YUACgkQ2ugaI38ACPD96gD+Pu9f9SVG//0yhioO0LGP/W8o sIGpiMFIEddXvhUsDAwA/0EJkZF8jrN7zmt/LdZy3nlCGKTIkPNxp5ukUGDDWIJB =Dlem -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
